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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-02-22
An1are ann Stores tdr asent.

nor RENT, residence Tattnall and Berrien
II streets; newly painted throughout inside.
ApplY next door.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-02-22
5Elp 3DantPn.

WANTED, men and women to start new
W business at their homes; easily learned
in an hour; no peddiing; ldc to SOC an hour
made daytime or. Ievenipg send l0c for "a
samples and package of material 10 COM
mence work on. Address ALBANY SUPPLY
CO., Albany. n. Y.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-02-22
Gmtplopmcnt 1uantr0 .

NTANTED.-A young man wants position
w as an assistant bookkeeper. Address A.
T.. this Office.
WANTED, by a young lady, position
w cashier or Office work. Address No, 80
Bull street.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-02-22

DOR RENT, store suitable for drug store,
Il corner Price and Anderson streets. APP
ply on premises.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-02-22
NttarPilaneoue.

TOOTH BRUSH to so cents, Chamo SC 10
L 90 Gents, Face Powders 5 TOT 80 cents, at
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-02-22
Ronnta to Rent.

nor RENT, nicely furnished rooms for
Il single gentlemen in best locality. In
quire 1881 Broughton street.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-02-22

WANTED, an active BARI eeper; German,
w unmarried: any person not acquainted
with business, but willing to learn, can APP
ply; good references required. Address
GERMAN. care of Morning News.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-02-22

ENOR RENT, nicely furnished south rooms
l. with board, centrally located. Address
f. A. P, Morning News.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-02-22

w ANTED, 1000 lady agents, at once, for
w my absolutely marvellous new rubber
undergarment for ladies; just out, nothing
like it, eclpses everything; sells faster and
pays better than all the ladies' specialties on
tins continent combined; one lady sold oil in
one day. and made Sl37 60 clear profit. Adj
dress MRS. II. F. LITTLE, Chicago, Ill. o.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-02-22

nor RENT, a four-room house, suitable
Il for business or dwelling. Apply next
door. 81 Broughton street.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-09-17
IRISH SIGNS AND OMENS.

"Never begin to work on Friday"
"To pass churn and not give a
helping hand is unlucky."
"Never remove from a house or
leave situation on Friday"
"To meet a funeral and not go
back four steps with it is unlucky."
1T is unlucky to accept a lock
of hair or four-footed beast from
lover"
ITO stick penknife in the mast
of boat when sailing is most un-
lucky"
presents may be given on New
Years day, but no money should
be paid away"
ut is unlucky to pass under a
hempen rope. He who does so will
die violent death or commit an
evil act.
"Never pay away any money on
the first Monday of the year, or
you will lose your luck in gaining
money all the year.
"To throw a slipper after a party
going on journey is lucky, also to
breakfast by cadle-light on Christ
mas morning"
Fire is the holiest of all things.
Walk three times round fire on
st. Johns eve, and you will be safe
from disease all that year"
"The yew tree, elder and ash
were sacred; the willow has in it
the mystery of sound the harp of
King Bryan Boru was made of will
low"
'If the palm of your hand itches,
you will be getting money, if the
elbow, you will be changing beds
if the ear, some one is speaking i'll
of you"
at is fatal at a marriage to tie
knot in ared silk handkerchief, and
only an enemy would do it. To
break the spell the handkerchief
should be burned"
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-09-17

The complaint about the degen-
eracy of the human race is not new
but dates as far back ss the time OF
Homer, at least, for the men of his
day were not like the heroes OF
whom he sang. 1t is not confirmed,
but is contradicted by all the tangi-
BILE facts, and these are not a few.
Human remains that are exumed,
after having reposcd in the grave
for many centuries, as in the cata-
combs of Paris, have nothing gi-
gantic about them. The armOr, the
cuirass and the casques of the war
riors of the middle ages can be
worn by modern soldiers, and many
of the knights suits would be too
small for the cuirrassiers of the Eu-
ropean armies, yet they were worn
by the selected men, who were bet
ter fed, stronger and more robust
than the rest of the population.
The bones of the ancient Gauls,
which are uncovered in the exoava-
tions of tumuli, while they are of
large dimensions, are comparable
with those of the existing pOpula-
tions of many places in France.
The Egyptian mummies are the
remains Of persons Of small or me-
dunn stature, as are also the Peru
Wan and Mexican mummies, and
the mummies and bones found in
the ancient monuments of India
and Persia. And even the most
ancient relics we possess of indi-
viduals of the human species, the
bones of men who lived in the ter
tiary period, an epoch, the remote
antiquity of which goes back for
hundreds of centuries, do not show
any important difference in the
size of the primitive and the mod
ern man.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-09-17
Marriage as an End.

The question of marriage is a
serious one, and because it is usu-
ally in the future, however remote,
of most young women, they do not
as rule take as serious a hold of
a profession as do young men.
When a young man begins business
he knows he will probably stick to
it to the end of his days. The very
fact that he may get married makes
it more necessary that he should
devote himself to mOney-making.
But with a young woman it is en-
tirely different. l have known
women to become very proficient
engravers, for example, and just as
their employers were beginning to
depend on their work they got mar
ried and laid the graver aside for
ever. How often you find parents
spending hundreds, even thousands
of dollars on the musical education
of their daughters, and when the
daughters get married they shut up
the piano and their musical educa-
tion is as good as thrown out of
the window. / have heard hun
dreds of young married women say,
when asked to play something: 81
am entirely out of practice. l
haven't opened the piano since l
was married" Whatever a man
does he does for life; but as usual
thing, when a woman undertakes a
thing, instead of being for life it is
till she shall be married.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-09-17
REAL POVERTY.

One day Alfred de Musset, the
French poet, in the flower of his gay
and brilliant youth, was walking
on the beach at the little Breton
watering-place of Croisie, surround
ed by a joyous gathering of young
men and women. They had just
left the luncheon-table, where the
deieuner had been plentiful and
the wines good. 1t was splendid
weather and old oceans ripping
laugh was heard by the rolling
shingle. Among all the gay COM
pany without doubt the brightest
with that day was Alfred de Mus
set his play of fancy was inexhaus-
tible; he was the life and soul of
the party-and yet this incorrigible
had nearly emptied his
purse to pay for the feast. One
louis was all that remained to him
"a new and bright louis dor
which he was throwing up and
down in the air, laughing mean
while at his poverty. Poverty,
however. who does not like being
made game of, suddenly appeared
upon the scene, round the cliff, in
the person of a little girl in rags
and tatters, asleep, with her head
on a heap of sea weed. The songs
and laughter ceased and the merry
party stopped short. Musset con-
tinued to play with his one wretch
ed louis dor, which shone brightly
in the sunshine. Soon, however,
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-09-17

Detroit Free Press.

Smith and the Editor--Upon a
certain Occasion, as the Editor OF
the Weekly Jabwock sat in his
Sanctum, a young man by the
name Of John Smith Rushed up
Stairs ard Demanded that his
Honor be cleared of a Vivid Stain.
The Jabwock had announced that
some one by the Name of John
Smith had been sent up for Thirty
Days. This John Smith wanted it
known that he wasn't the John
Smith. or he would bring a Great,
Big, Overgrown Libel Suit. Ger
tainly-with Pleasure" Replied the
Editor of the Jabwock. And he
wrote that the John Smith of
Pumpkin Pie Avenue was not the
John Smith who pounded his aged
Mother; nor the Smith who stole a
Harness; nor the Smith arrested
for Bigamy, nor the Smith who Set
the Saw Mill on fire. In fact, he
cleared him of all the Crimes and
Offenses on the Calendar, and the
result was that Smith stopped his
Paper, Withdrew his Advertising,
and Licked the Editor,
and was the means of Bankrupting
the Paper. Moral: There is such
Thing as Being Too All-Fired Anx-
ious to Please Subscribers.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-09-17
An EnglishlT Tramp Must Work.

81 arrived in Manchester one
night about 8 o clock, having walked
from Penistone, a distance of thirty
three miles," the tramp related. IL
was admitted into one of those
night shelters, and, notwithstand-
ing the distance had covered that
day, l was escorted to the base
ment and my attention directed to
a crank, which l was told | had to
turn so many thousand times before
| could receive my repast, which
consisted of a very small portion
of very stale bread and water. The
crank was connected by a shaft to
a corn-crushing machine in the ad-
joining cell. l turned for dear life
for an hour an three-quarters and
was then conducted to bath. My
clothes, even to my shirt, were
taken from me, and l was handed
in exchange blue flannel shirt
which reached my heels. Thus at
tired, was marched on my bare
feet through long corridors with
floors of stone and was put in q
cell, the furniture of which con-
sisted solely of a bench eighteen
inches high, with wooden pillow,
without mattress or covering of
any kind, upon which apology for a
bed had to PROSTATE my weary
body, my sole covering being the
blue flannel shirt already described.
| spent a most agonizing night, be-
ing nearly chilled to death.
II gladly welcomed the approach
of the turnkey at 6 O'Clock next
morning. By him / was conducted
to the basement, to resume for the
day the duties of hard-labor-pris-
Oner. l merely wanted one nights
shelter, in return for which | was
expected, yea, compelled, to sub
NIT to thirty-six hours imprison-
ment with hard labor on bread and
water, the rules of the institution
being that applicants for nights
shelter must remain there the day
and night following the evening of
their admission.
"The lady evangelist who pre-
sided at prayers in the evening,
with Bible in hand, must have had
little or no knowledge of the treat
ment the men received, for she
congratulated them upon being
recipients of such great and divine
ly sent kindness. Little did she
dream that, while she was comfort
ably ensconced in her warm feather
bed, covered with the best English
blankets, we were shivering on the
bare boards without a shred of COW
ring."-Manchester Guardian.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-09-17

Philadelphia Press.

Mr.. Lee told a very interesting
story in connection with the history
of the driving park built at Town
Bank, about seven miles from Cape
May. 1t was built just after the
war by a number of gentlemen who
had horses and wanted to speed
them. AS was foreseen, because OF
the distance from Cape May, peo-
pie would not go, and the property
fell into the unfeeling hands of the
sheriff. 1t was sold to satisfy a
mortgage, and the association
bought it in for $17 900, the amount
of the mortgage.
"Old Bill Millward came down
with a check for the amount con-
tinued Mr.. Lee, ''but the sheriff
would not accept it. He then went
to the city and returned two days
later with seventeen $1,000 bills in
his pocket. He arrived here in the
evening, and. before going to bed,
wrapped up his trousers containing
his treasure and put it under his
pillow. After he had been asleep a
short time he was awakened by
cries of Fire." and jumping out of
bed (he was in the old Atlantic
hotel) he saw the United States
hotel in flames. He got to the fire
as quickly as he could, and worked
until 4 o'clock, when somebody told
him his own hotel was nearly burned
to the ground. When he arrived
there, the first person he met was
the wife of the proprietor, who said !:
"Oh, Mr.. Millward, Pm afraid some
of the guests have lost valuable
property" For the first time since
he went to bed the thought of that
money had dawned upon him. He
had left it under the pillow and had
worn another pair of trousers. He
hired men for hours to poke around
the embers, but no trace could be
found. He returned to the city,
scraped another $1,000 together
and paid the sheriff; and for years
afterward 'Bill was stopping at the
newly built Congress hall. One
evening in the barroom two colored
men had a quarrel. In the midst
of it one of them, who was getting
the worst of it, turned to Bill and
said: "Mr. Millward, you lost $17,-
900 in the fire, didn't ye? Well,
that man got it, and he built a lot
of houses in Brooklyn AS soon
rs the man had spoken his adver-
sary threw a bottle at his head,
which would have killed him in
had it reached its mark.
Investigation proved the man had
spoken the truth, and .'Bill' recov-
cred over $4,000 of his fortune
which he thought went up in flames"
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-09-17

WooD OIL.-Wood oil is made
on large scale In Sweden from the
refuse of timber-cutting and forest
.clearings, and from stumps and
roots; and, although it cannot well
be burned in common lamps on
account of the heavy proportion of
carbon it contains, it furnishes q
satisfactory light in lamps especial
ly made for it, and in its natural
state is said to be the cheapest of
Illuminating oils. Thirty factories
produce about 10000 litres of oil
daily; turpentine, creosote, acetic
acid, charcoal, coal-lar o;l and other
useful substances are also obtained
from the same material.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-09-17
Squeezed Up Froo' Her DresA

A London paper tells a story Of
a lady who, all dressed for ball,
went to the nursery to kiss her lit
tie daughter good night. The child
looked at her mother in astonish-
ment, and q moment after the tears
came into her big blue eyes, and
che sobbed out, "Poo' mamma
Poo mamma! Poo Nellie's man.
NAL" "What's the matter with
your mamma?" asked her father,
who was standing by. "Poo' man.
mas all squeezed up froo' top Of
her dress I"
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-09-17
e%nAG CLASSES ATTENTION.!

i. snploymsp paepared to furnish all classes
= Q, ior ihheht ,h";ht at home, the whole Of the
J, ,Esht snS rasir = spare moments. Business
. .S:sily earn pptsoitable. sble Persons of either
,sSSg ,Sg and q from rrom % cents to 800 per
! their tin,Pp il proportional sum by dcvot-
3 esrn nearI, 70 The business. Bows and
sse this ns NY as much as men. That ali
tae businass send their address. and
sie are ny, We make this offer. To
d Sllsr to "a, nsv wei satisfied we will send
'ssl s1,ss,,sn afs and outfit free, Xddres. a. ds1s
q Co., Portland, Maine.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-09-17

drawing near gently, he placed be-
tween the pink half-closed lips of
the child-very softly, that he
might not rouse her-the louis dor,
his last remaining resource. Char
ity is catching; his example was
followed by nearly all present, and
the poor peasant child when she
awoke later, found undreamed of
riches in her grasp.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-09-17

"Do you stop at Devastation"
asked the traveller, desirous ofreach-
ing that far western town. "No,
sir" replied the conductor with
professional asperity; 1--WE don't
stop short of Annihilation."
Charles Dudley Warner is of the
opinion that two-thirds of the men
Of to-day would rather be Jay
Gould than James Russell Lowell.
A woman always looks under the
bed for a man. A man goes out
between acts to look for him
Boston Courier.
Some of the best blood in the
land now runs through the mosqui-
to's veins.-Pittsburg Chronicle
Telegraph.
Customer-Are you sure this
bread is fresh, baker? Baker
Well, should say so-it's to-lnor-
rows.
"Help one another" works we'll
enough everywhere except at table
of a well-filled clearinghouse.
A lawyer is like q restless maa
in bed. He lies first on one side
and then on the other.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-09-17

The KEYSTONE has long been ncknowi-
edged to be the sole representative OF the
Great Upper Wood River and Sawtooth
mining regions, and, located as il is IN the
very heart of the most promising mining
country on the face of the earth. and leav.
ing nothing undone to present its readers .
complete synopsis of all mining news and
developments, as well as matters Of local
importance in the growth of kctchuin. the
future metropolis of Idaho, it is an invalua-
BILE guide for capital and informant To the
settler of every craft and position. Sub
scribe for it, read it, and let your friends
read what may benefit them.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-09-17

The average Texan chews his
weight in tobacco every four years,
and it is needless to add that most
of it is bortowed.-Detroit Free
Press.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-09-17

Some of these days the American
tov pistol will be introduced into
French dueling warfare, and then
{omebody will get hurt.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-09-17

The ramor that President Cleve-
land does not like watermelons is
declared to be an attempt to make
him unpopular in the south.-Bos-
ton Transcript.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-09-17

The Hartford girl who married
the Chinaman is now a woman Of
elegant Lee-sure.-Lowell Courier.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-09-17

It is at circus, when be can
keep his hat on, that bald-headed
man is really independent.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-09-17
There's Lots of Them.

St. Paul Globe: 1t was Judge
Mahon, quite well known in the
state, and especially in Olmsted
county, who, one fine morning, met
Sam Whitten, another state charac-
ter. Said the judge:
whats your nationality, Sam?"
"Irishr
"And what church do you belong
to?"
Methodist" :"
"And what partyS"
"Republican!"
"Wcll." commented the judge,
"that's the record | ever
knew any man to have-an Irish
man, a Methodist, and a republican,
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-09-17

John C. Johnson, an Arizona
stockman, married Jessie Felaton,
and gave her in three days $12, 600
worth of jewelry and dresses and
$4,000 for pin money, Immediately
thereafter she eloped with an east
ern drummer.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-08-16
MEXICAN PEONAGE.


System OF bondage Which IL Worse
Than Actual Slavery.
Peonage is simple in theory and COM
pick in practice. 1t is the attaching of
labor for debt A species of judg
ment is obtained and mans services
belong to the creditor until the debt is
wiped out. So far it might be worse,
but (and here is the ruby the obliga-
ton does not end with the debtor, but,
like the witch's curse in "Ruddygore, v
becomes hereditary and descends from
father to son until satisfied. This fact,
and the further fact that the bulk of
Mexican poems are not the original
debtors, but the descendants of debt
ors, would seem to indicate chat race
of active prodigals had once existed
in the land; but, ON the contrary, most
of the debts are under fifty dollars.
The incredible poverty and ignorance
of the masses is the only explanation
of this state of things. Not one in five
hundred can cast up the simplest form
of accounts. A peon is allowed at best
only few tlacos day. and tlaco is
about a cent and half. Out of this
his food and clothing are charged up
and occasionally interest is added to
the original amount. So it can be
readily seen that instead of decreasing,
the debt is gradually growing larger
and larger, and the condition OF the
poor wretch more and more. hopeless
The further inland, the more poems
and the arabic lands of Sonora and
chihuahua are titled almost exclusivel
bv them. A large farm in these dis
tlicts resembles slave plantation, ex
cept that no care whatever is paid t.
the condition of the people. They ar
not worth it. At the mines the same
state of things exists, and whether IL
the shaft or chill patch the peon work
on, doggedly, hopelessly, helpiessly
born to it and knowing nothing bette
or beyond. Food and clothing ar,
both kept near the vanishing point.
little maize and few chill pods suffice
for one, and pair of overalls, acottol
shirt and straw sombrero for the other
| A pair of COW hide boots is the rewar'
Of merit, and as they are used only o.
feast DAYS they will last a peon all M
| life. and probably descend with Tn
peonage to his son. The women w ,
cheap calico gowns, and the chlldre
nothing at all. An outlay OF ley
dollars will clothe whole family for
year, and an actual calculation show
| that they consume about eight cent
worth of food week per capita
propo Citv (Uah) american.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-08-16
~..nxL,n's GRAVE.
- Neglected LccatIou -
,-.oticed ~" 1,,s1est section.

..a Neglected Loeauon -
ussosiessS, .hla,s Busiest Section =,
rhl'so' n,ank walls Of a very Old
lns aground ~ are frownea down 2, y u . -
rins,, cwerIng structures o. manu- !,
the 'oS S business that surround and
eturs ana i D N one Of the busiest parts
sm t !. s%e, :, Inside the burying.
Phllsao s1,s arc trees planted BY men
rounaa ,' w''i from old age years ago;
irds come =, His a cool oasis IN the great
miles :, ID throbbing city streets; one
sssrt o. sart and wrinkled. takes an
4 man i Nv, walk over the scarcely dis
ccs 80. crass-grown paths. and nj.
srniD'e' ~, 2 feet that tread this silent
y 9. i. ~ Arch street wall worry near
u . rv an opening has been made.
be ooIn .ss have been taken away for
:. mace Of perhaps ., aolsn .o ,ovs.
nr0us s'n;ne one can get a glimpse Of
y I PEACEFUL grounds within. That
% p u was made long years ago
rs & x. noisy city has grown all about
no ~ ding II and jostling Il but
0s0. .ncrosching beyond its walls
~. s,v, sun-up to midnight there Is .
rom n ~, hurrying Of wagons and cars
os Or snm .n'' beings BY this metropolis.
% ~. h. Grated opening has seldom q
, :. 49, though there lies within . few
ls,'o !, !. ths dust Of man whose pro-
Y. = ,.isdom and humanity moved
y 49, whole civilized world.
2, NJ three block away stands . grea'
,. ~, bearing his nsme-an issti.
.,;on fostering all that Is scientific and
WI y i,vos to learn the hidden things O
Y. .turs's laws; that fosters and en-
s s.r,s the genius Of men and teach
industry and the value OF sole
..rr;nv. Loss distant in the opposite
lection d. lies great public square
:. ofthose beneficial breathing-spacel
iths city's pent-up masses bearing
Il name. Ry its side there runs
ans, wide street bearing his name
saS ali over the city there are mill
ma printing shops and factories AM
ouudries bearing his name, while al
.y.r the State and country there ar
owns and townships and counties ais
,..,tnr his name. Yet there lie hi
honas down in the heart OF thi
bie city, with arteries throbbini
N the work and pleasures o
NAN. beneath a thin stone slab
which grows greencr and thinner yea
~ wear. obscured by the lightes
snows Of winter, the earliest grasse
4 summer and the first fall Of autumn
leaves A singular end Of . marvel
Gus mani
/ looked through the bars. Wit
much craning Of my neck and muc
pressing Of my face against the bars,
made out this simple. fast-fading In
scription in the thin marble slab: